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Q621. | Who is the Special Representative for Sino-India boundary talks who will hold informal talks with his Chinese counterpart to discuss the vexed border dispute and other strategic issues ,will visit China soon ? |
| 1) | Sushma Swaraj |
2) | Ajit Doval |
| 3) | Subrahmanyam Jaishankar |
4) | Rajnath Singh |
| 5) | None of these |
Answer : Ajit Doval
View AnswerQ622. | The Central Government has declared 2016 as the ‘Year of LPG Consumers’. The govt. also unveiled plans to make the clean cooking fuel available to all households.What is target year of roll out online bill payment facility and transparent gas cylinders ? |
| 1) | End of 2016 |
2) | End of 2017 |
| 3) | End of 2018 |
4) | End of 2019 |
| 5) | None of these |
Answer : End of 2018
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Q623. | The information and broadcasting ministry has constituted a panel to give recommendations for restructuring of censor board, which has been mired in controversies in the recent past.Who among the following is the constituted director of panel ? |
| 1) | Shyam Benegal |
2) | Amitabh Bachchan |
| 3) | Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra |
4) | Bhawana Somaaya |
| 5) | None of these |
Answer : Shyam Benegal
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Q624. | The Central Govt. has appointment a panel to vigil the students no-fail-till-Class 8 which has recommended revocation of the 'no-detention policy' under which students could not be failed in exams till class VIII as part of the Right to Education. Who is the head of the panel ? |
| 1) | Smriti Irani |
2) | Rajnath Siongh |
| 3) | Shri Arvind Panagariya, |
4) | Vasudev Devnani |
| 5) | Shri Bibek Debroy |
Answer : Vasudev Devnani
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Q625. | Recently, the Union Govt. has taken the decision that those with annual taxable income above --------- to be excluded from getting subsidised LPG cylinders where as many as 57.5 lakh “well-to-do households” to voluntarily give up the cooking gas subsidy. |
| 1) | above Rs 5 lakh |
2) | above Rs 6 lakh |
| 3) | above Rs 10 lakh |
4) | above Rs 12 lakh |
| 5) | None of these |
Answer : above Rs 10 lakh
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Q626. | The Union Government has unveiled the India's National Biotechnology Development Strategy 2015-2020 to establish India as a world class bio-manufacturing hub which would work to turn this sector into a $100 billion industry by 2025 with focus in areas of healthcare, food and nutrition, clean energy and education.The National Biotechnology Development Strategy is under the ministry of ------- . |
| 1) | Ministry of science and technology |
2) | Ministry of HRD |
| 3) | Ministry of Health and Education |
4) | Ministry of Home |
| 5) | None of these |
Answer : Ministry of science and technology
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Q627. | The Central Govt. has decided to scale up the financial assistance for grid connected rooftop and small solar power plants programme from Rs 600 crore to Rs.---------- crore for implementation of Grid Connected Rooftops systems over a period of five years upto 2019-20 under National Solar Mission (NSM) which aim is to increase the use of clean energy . |
| 1) | Rs 1,000 crore |
2) | Rs 2,000 crore |
| 3) | Rs 5,000 crore |
4) | Rs 10,000 crore |
| 5) | None of these |
Answer : Rs 5,000 crore
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Q628. | The Central Government has approved an Amended Technology Up-gradation Fund Scheme (A-TUFS) replacing the existing Revised Restructured TUFS for technology up-gradation of the textiles industry. It expected to attract investment to the tune of Rs 1 lakh crore and create over how many jobs in India ? |
| 1) | 20 lakh jobs |
2) | 30 lakh jobs |
| 3) | 40 lakh jobs |
4) | 50 lakh jobs |
| 5) | None of these |
Answer : 30 lakh jobs
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Q629. | Which committee viewed the public-private partnership (PPP) model for infrastructure and has recommended several measures for easy financing of issuance of zero coupon bonds by banks to developers, equity divestment by the government from completed projects and removing bars on demonetization of viable projects after the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) work is finished ? |
| 1) | Kelkar committee |
2) | Rangarajan Committee |
| 3) | Naresh Chandra Committee |
4) | Narasimham Committee |
| 5) | None of these |
Answer : Kelkar committee
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Q630. | Which state government has observed December 29 as the Vishwamanava Day on the memory of the legendary poet Kuvempu 's birthday ? |
| 1) | Kerala |
2) | Karnataka |
| 3) | Tamil Nadu |
4) | Maharashtra |
| 5) | Andhra Pradesh |
Answer : Karnataka
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